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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · 7d

Much appreciate the update

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · 8d

Could you say more about what you're seeing Zander?

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · 17d

No one in this Bluesky world will be surprised to hear how much the students loved your presentation and benefited from your guidance. On the misinformation examples that pop up daily: talk about abundance!

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Sep 7

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

We Are All Lisa Cook

Nobody is safe from weaponized government

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am looking forward to reading it!

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are lucky that Alberta will be a Fellow this year at Michigan, the inaugural joint fellowship with ISR and the Wallace House Center for Journalists, for journalists who want to build their analytical skills. isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

Tim Alberta named the James S. House and Wendy Fisher House Social Science Fellow

ANN ARBOR—Tim Alberta, an award-winning journalist, author and staff writer for The Atlantic, has been named the James S. House and Wendy Fisher House Social Science Fellow. This newly established fe...

isr.umich.edu

Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jul 24

Tho the book came out in 2023, Alberta's writing offers clues about Trump's Epstein August. Many believe that Trump was born again as president, and so it is possible to forgive past sins. But freeing Ghislaine Maxwell, delaying, and blaming Democrats makes him look guilty and unrepentant.

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jul 24

Alberta is a brilliant writer and unassuming, curious, persistent interviewer. The gang's all here, from Jerry Falwell Sr & Jr, Robert Jeffress, Charlie Kirk, Ralph Reid; a wide range of hucksters; and decent people who don't know what to do. The interviews he gets are wild. www.bytimalberta.com

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jul 24

⭐ Book rec to understand Trump's Epstein August: www.harpercollins.com/products/the.... There's no better guide to the evangelicals’ embrace of Trump. This is no outsider’s ethnography; he is a pastor’s son trying to understand how the church he loves has chosen earthly power over the Gospel.

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year An Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year \"Brave and abso...

www.harpercollins.com

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Jul 23

The launch of an important new public resource.

The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability
www.justsecurity.org/117267/anti-...

The Tracker is a living document that will be continually updated.

A screenshot below gives you a sense of the Chart and its data.

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jul 17

"Fear is the tool of a tyrant."

Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · Jul 17

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Cutting the CPB devastates rural public radio. On a recent roadtrip w @scottepage.bsky.social we listened only to public radio. It was incredibly...local: hog sales, new biz, swaps, & in western KS, a book club of Verghese's Covenant of Water. We lose more than emergency alerts. We lose community.

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Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · Jun 27

Special Issue Captures Vibrant Moment in #ComplexityEconomics

Editorial team:
@jennabednar.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @maria-drc.bsky.social @doynefarmer.bsky.social @francoislafond.bsky.social
+J.Kaszowska-Mojsa, P.Mealy, M.Pangallo & A.Pichler

#EconSky

www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/vibrant...

Special Issue Captures Vibrant Moment in Complexity Economics

An edition of the Journal of Economic Behavior co-edited by INET Oxford shows how complexity economics can answer the policy questions of the day

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jun 14

I love *my country. (And I do!)

Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jun 14

Missed the alt texts, sorry! Photos of handmade signs reading Save Our Libraries, Make America Think Again, I Love Amy Country Stop Ruining It, and Land of the Free (taped to a kid’s fishing pole!)

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jun 14

Over 1K rejected kings in Brighton, MI, a red town of 8k in the midst of a deep red county. The vibe: highly patriotic, pro people power, pro freedom. A rousing collective pledge of allegiance. Pro constitution signs on fishing poles and marshmallow sticks.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jun 14

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jun 9

Can federalism hold? Here's a decent review of recent federalization of national guard troops. Last time done over a gov's wishes was 60 years ago, to protect protesters. BTW the president's order can include all states, not just CA. Where are the R governors? D govs? Pritzker? wapo.st/3ZXocaZ

When have presidents called in the National Guard to quell domestic unrest?

The National Guard was also called during the 1992 L.A. riots and the unrest that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. Trump’s order was unlike any other.

wapo.st

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Jun 1

this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time

OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.

data4democracy.substack.com

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · Jun 2

DeVos family creates a 501c4, headed by Ronna McDaniel, to promote R candidates in Michigan. Open seats in 2026 for gov, AG, SOS, and US Senate.

Billionaire DeVos family backs new effort to make Michigan a Republican stronghold

The political organization will be led by former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel.

www.mlive.com

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · May 30

We're often confused with New Hampshire

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · May 17

On the flight to Amsterdam a rowdy group of septuagenarian women from New Orleans kept saying 86 this trash, 86 this movie, 86 this wine, it’s terrible. It’s true, they killed me.

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · May 12

Perfect observation! Now if only we knew how to conjure it up.

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Jenna Bednar @jennabednar.bsky.social · May 9

We Chicagoans do love to get out on our balconies in May, waving hello to all the neighbors.

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the balcony.

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